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On Samsung phones your whole screen flashes in a custom color and and animation, and after that you have your always on display. So they are no longer needed with OLED screens that can display it themselves
That seems to me a waaay too inefficient indicator of "you have unread notifications"
Idk why? I like it to see the clock on the always on display, but you can also change it so you just have a small red pixels lit up, to mirror the "notification led style". You can style the aod like you want on Android
The nothing phone has led glyph indicators on the back.
Just bought Galaxy XCover 6pro. Lost many features I had in my previous phone. Kept removable battery and headphone jack. Gained notification led.
Can't say I really missed it tho. I'd trade it for an optical image stabilizer.
My phone still has the LED but I turned off the feature long ago including the battery low and charge indicators. More annoying than useful.
I hate the LED and I'm so glad my current phone doesn't have it. It's especially the charging indicator that bothers me because it's so bright at night
what the hell are you talking about
For just a fraction of a second I considered showing you, by taking a screen shot... 🤦 I'm my defence, I'm suppressed to be asleep now.
Many phones used to have - some still have - a separate LED facing you that could light up to notify you of, uh, notifications. The first generation android phones just had green LEDs, eventually they all supported colour as well. Some OS'es or apps enabled you to set up per-app colour, blink/fade, and pattern configurations. Super neat, I was a huge fan.
On most modern phones [such apps] (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rageconsulting.android.lightflow) rarely work anymore, but on my OnePlus 5 I still have different colours for different notifications.
thanks for explanation
if this feature got rare around 2010 or so, then i had no way of ever seeing such a phone in the wild
i am still mad they got rid of it on xiaomi note 10 pro.... i mean yhea you can activate a thing for show notification on the screen but slurp slurp the batery. (and future burn in)
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